RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan

Re:RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan by ekianjo on Sunday October 04, 2015 @05:23AM (#10327008)

> At some point though, which I think is right about now, we cross the point where less than 50% of the jobs can be done with a two-digit IQ. We no longer need manual labourers, we need people who can design and maintain robots. And the fact is that 50% of the population is of below-median intelligence and will have trouble doing these new jobs.

There's still tons of jobs where you don't high IQ to do. Shopkeepers, bartenders, and the whole artisan category where more qualification is required but not that much either (plumbers, bakers, farmers and the like). And it will be very hard to make them go away anytime soon (and probably not worth it even if it's possible). On top of that there's a resurgence of the value of handmade stuff vs industrial articles (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etsy for example) since richer people value stuff that's unique rather than what's cheap.

Again, just like every single time of Changes in History, people adapt.

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Re:RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan by swombat on Sunday October 04, 2015 @09:51AM (#10327497)

Even more important than low-IQ jobs, I think there are many jobs where EQ is a bigger factor - and EQ can be trained, unlike IQ. Jobs that involve caring for people, old and young, jobs that involve just being there and being a loving and understanding person, jobs that involve mediating between two parties that are having a dispute - basically, jobs where your main function is to give a shit and be able to show it even under difficult, dramatic circumstances.

We could use a lot more of those people who spend the time and energy to care about each other. I'm more worried about the fact that there's zero school/educational investment in EQ, than about the rising tide of "too low IQ to be able to work"...

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